The main motivation of this thesis is to draw and explore the life group portraits and life writings of intellectuals in the early postwar period in Taiwan. According to Sayyid’s definition of the “public role” of intellectuals who “tell the truth to authority”, the author selected eight people who had served as editors of newspaper and magazine supplements in the early post-war period, each with a different socioeconomic background, ideology and life. Experienced public intellectuals of foreign and Taiwanese origin---Xu Shoushang, Wang Sixiang (Lou Xian and Zhou Mengjiang), Huang Rongcan, Su Xin, Lu Heruo, Yang Kui, Wu Zhuoliu, Long Yingzong, etc. Based on their discussion and creation in the public domain in the early post-war period, life interviews and written materials in the private domain were explored to observe the true life course of intellectuals in the early post-war period.
Eight intellectuals, as editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief positions and identities, cooperated to construct a public discussion space, jointly addressing issues such as Taiwan’s cultural assets during the Japanese colonial era, the promotion of official sinicization, Taiwan’s cultural subjectivity, political democratization, and realistic literary concepts. Collective discourse and construction, further criticize, appeal to the reform of social reality, and exert its influence of public intellectuals. At the same time, the exchanges, integration, and reconstruction across provinces, political stances, and ideologies were carried out to form the unique "united front" and "cultural exchange" nature of the public discourse cultural field in the early post-war period. In terms of writing in the private field, through the family notes, memoirs, life narratives and interview records of the intellectuals, even the "disappearance" and "missing" conditions have reflected the intellectual transitions, life choices, and life changes in the early postwar period. And how did they find a way out of the scars and injuries that the great age brought to their families, personal bodies, or psychology.